Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Northampton Housing
Today’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the Walter Salvo House (Northampton Housing Authority) was far more than a program scheduled from noon to afternoon. It was a living, breathing testament to what community looks like when people answer a call—not because it is easy or perfectly timed, but because it is necessary.
Still Glowing After The Third Clean-Up Salvo Event
This article is by Jo Ella (Jada) Tarbutton-Springfield, a tenant at the Walter Salvo House in the Northampton Housing Authority.
Creating Community in Northampton
Community Support for Respect
Comments prepared for delivery at the November 14, 2024 gathering of the Anti-Hate, Anti-Bias Task Force of Middlesex DA Marian T. Ryan
Negro Election Day
Negro Election Day was hot and sunny.
Doreen Wade Celebrates Democracy
Celebrating Democracy
We hope to live with dignity and respect for our rights, even if we live in public and subsidized housing. However, we often feel like prisoners and we despair for relief.
Enslaved people and their descendants have had a more difficult challenge to seek their rightful place as free persons living with dignity and respect for their rights!
Embracing History to Bend the Moral Arc
Negro Election Day to Be State Holiday
On the third Saturday of July, the 17th of July, 2022 during the celebration of Negro Election Day at the Salem Willows, Doreen Wade introduced and thanked Senator Joan Lovely and Representative Paul Tucker. The legislators announced that both the Senate and the House had approved a bill to establish the third Saturday in July as a state holiday, and would become law with the signature of the Governor. Lovely and Tucker presented Wade with a duplicate of the proclamation that awaits Baker's signature.
Creating Trust-Based Partnerships
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Community Norms, Social Distancing & Bullying
Introduction
Community norms can either promote a healthy, caring community or lead to a toxic community that is harmful. In public and subsidized housing for the elderly and disabled, failure to control bullying and mobbing (group bullying) creates a toxic community, while failing to prevent transmission of COVID-19 can create a deadly situation.
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From darkness to light, from mourning to hope, and from fear to strength
The Sabbath of Friday, November 1 began in darkness at Temple Ner Tamid in Peabody when about 250 people, including the congregation and the invited clergy including members of the Peabody Clergy Ministerial Association (PCMA) and both city and state officials were joined by members of the Peabody community in a demonstration of solidarity in the face of tragedy---the murder of eleven at the Tree of Life.